Liu Chih

Liu Chih (1892-1971) was a general of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War.

Biography
Liu Chih was born in Ji'an, Liangxi to a peasant family in 1892. He was raised by his grandfather after the death of his parents, and he entered the Baoping Military Academy in 1914. Liu Chih served in various regional armies and became a military commander during the Kuomintang Northern Expedition, and he became a close ally of Chiang Kai-shek. During the 1930s, he defeated communist forces in Henan province, but he was dismissed from command in 1942 due to his failure to prevent the Japanese bombing of Chungking. However, he replaced Li Zongren as commander of the fifth war zone, and he became commander-in-chief of the 800,000 troops in Xuzhou during the Chinese Civil War immediately after the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. His timidity and ineffective leadership led to the defeat in the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign, and he was again fired by Chiang. In 1953, he was allowed to head to Taiwan after teaching Chinese in Indonesia, and he died in 1971.